Relief: Detail of Orsanmichele Tabernacle
Relief: Detail of Orsanmichele Tabernacle
Published 2017-03-03T12:31:17+00:00
This relief was a part of the tabernacle at Orsanmichele in Florence. The tabernacle is an unprecedented architectonic structure in Florence, although it does have affinities with a series of monuments that stretch back to the late dugento. Its bas-reliefs exhibit new solutions to the problem of narrative sculpture while at the same time manifesting a debt to art before 1348. Finally, its imagery is fully positive rather than harsh and judgemental. The context of the tabernacle helps to explain much of this. First, the tabernacle was built to house a thaumaturgic image of the Virgin that had been the goal of pilgrims fromt he late dugento on. Second, the patrons of the tabernacle were members of a confraternity whose origins also reached far back in time to 1291. Their practices already established in 1294, seem to be reflected in some of the imagery. This was the only confraternity in the city not associated with a church, and this fact too may have affected the appearance of the monument.
The tabernacle is encrusted with precious lapis, gold and glass inlay that creates a brilliant, shining polychromy; it is especially dense in the celestial realm, rendering the area still flatter. The elaborate decoration is equivalent to the rich brocades in contemporary painting, a taste which blossomed with the International Gothic style.
printed lay flat down, layer 0.1, scaled 80%, this scale don't allow you to have a fine details, especially the heads of people
Date published | 03/03/2017 |
Time to do | 240 - 300 minutes |
Material Quantity | 34 grams |
Dimensions | 99 x 68 x 19 mm |
Technology | FDM |
Complexity | Medium |
Support Free | YES |
Title | Relief: Detail of Orsanmichele Tabernacle |
Date | 1308-1368 |
Period | Gothic |
Medium | Wood |
Record | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3050142?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents |
Artist | Orcagna (Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo) |
Place | Pushkin Museum |